Bishop Carroll Catholic High School asked Tran to return his valedictorian medal and recognition after he gave the unapproved speech at graduation Sunday.
and it took them months to find someone to cut and bale.
but apparently this new generation doesn’t want to do hard work (and they pay well)
The irony of calling out kids for not wanting to do the work you don't want to do either is pretty amusing.
Some people just aren't cut out for back breaking work (myself included). I did construction for a few summers in high school, and that was enough to tell me how important studying is, because I didn't want to wreck my body for someone else's dime.
he exposed that under a determined enough man with enough popular support behind him
Well good news, he's not actually that popular. I'm baffled that he's still got an aggregate 47% approval rating, but even faux news' poll has him down to 44% and he was only above 50% in poling for less than a 2 weeks after he came into office.
And that's all before the most recent news about the medicare/medicaid slashing. And ahead of the coming wave of layoffs due to the economy slowing down. The policies he's trying to enact are going to (slowly) erode what support he still has as his base realizes just how fucked they are.
How exactly does blaming your neighbors create meaningful change?
I don't know, short of trying to show people the errors of their ways in tacitly supporting a fascist. But what other options do we have? Lie to them and say "it's totally not your fault that trump was elected, even though you chose not to put forth the bare minimum effort to stop him"? I get that electoral politics isn't enough (and we all need to be out in the streets doing what we can to resist), but I'm tired of pretending that the third of the country that's checked out of politics isn't also responsible for the people that get elected while they chose to abdicate their responsibility as a member of the voting public.
If this was your neighbors dog is shitting in your yard and not cleaning it up, would you blame the neighbor for their choice (leaving shit in your yard you have to deal with because they couldn't be bothered to pick it up) and try to help them see the error of their ways, or would you ignore the shit entirely and hope they do better next time?
I don't care whether you think it's right or wrong, I am asking how it actually helps improve the system.
Turning your question around, how does ignoring the culpability of nonvoters in election outcomes improve the system? Do you think we'll see an improvement in turnout if we ignore that republicans only win through voter suppression and don't point out that encouraging not voting is one of their preferred strategies?
Increased participation is one of the best ways we can get out of this hole, and I'm really tired of people supposedly in my side constantly getting own goals with this kind of rhetoric.
That’s oligarchy apologetics bullshit to keep us from changing the system.
Or, you know, I'm being realistic about how things work in the real world. Or do you think that letting the fascists win is going to change the system for the better?
Whether or not you think its 'oligarchy apologetics bullshit', 2/3 of voting the population either explicitly or tacitly supported this shit. So yeah, I'm going to blame the majority for the outcome of a majority vote. Ignoring that fact is just going to make getting any meaningful change that much harder, and its hilarious to watch people justify their inaction in the face of the result of their choice.
Republicans have long lied about people not showing up to immigration hearings, and now they're doing their best to give people a fantastic reason to not show up.
it's irresponsible to have him just stay in Congress at all, since he might miss crucial votes.
That's the name of the game with boomers. Gotta keep yourself going until you die in office so conservatives can have another win and erase anything you may have accomplished.
Why yes, I am still mad about RBG, why do you ask?
What kind of "real world load" are you putting on your trimmer? Mine barely ever gets caught in hair, and when it does, the hair gets cut before it can apply any meaningful amount of force to the trimmer guard.
That implies we'd ever recover and this isn't just the permanent end of American dominance.
Oh no, you completely took the wrong implication out of this.
"We're cooked for decades" meaning that we're absolutely fucked, but it might not be awful after a few decades. I have no allusions that the American hegemony will ever return.
Absolutely. Republicans don't realize just how tenuous our status on the world stage, and thought it was still the 1950s. With everything they're doing, we're absolutely cooked for decades to come.
No, but trump (and his republican Toadies) did just singlehandedly shake the confidence the financial world has in us....... Again.
Debt can be fine, as we've seen real presidents use debt and not drastically hurt the US credit rating. Having a demented and unpredictable sociopath controlling the financial system is a much bigger problem, considering he's thrown out any pretense of normal behavior and is clearly just fucking with the stick market for personal gain.
I have started to hate my ceramic skillets. They started sticking a couple of years after we bought them, and it's a pain to lose half of an egg to the pan....
Yeah, I get that. But also, the root mount point is a valid partition, and it is full, so it makes sense why it shows up that way.
I think a lot of the confusion is letting go to old habits and knowledge that don't exactly work with the new system. In still going through that a lot myself (and will probably be making my own troubleshooting post when I have time), but it's always good to experiment and see what you can learn.